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Shannon Mckeon Joins Dykema

October 25, 2010

Washington, D.C.

Dykema, a leading national law firm, announces that Shannon Marie McKeon
has joined the firm as an associate in the Intellectual Property
Department. Ms. McKeon’s practice covers all aspects of intellectual
property law, particularly trademarks and branding. Prior to joining
Dykema, Ms McKeon worked as a trademark paralegal and law clerk, during
which she acquired substantive knowledge and experience on a wide
variety of trademark practice areas including prosecution and
maintenance of U.S. and international trademark applications and
registrations, enforcement of trademark rights, domain name/Internet
related issues and opposition and cancellation proceedings before the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Ms. McKeon has developed
experience in domain name/Internet law and the procedural aspects
associated with this integral aspect of trademark practice. She has
worked with numerous domain name registrars (e.g., GoDaddy and Network
Solutions) to implement and complete domain name transfers for many
clients. In addition, Ms. McKeon has helped draft and prosecute numerous
complaints under ICANN’s Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy,
resulting in the transfer of many valuable domain names to a wide
variety of clients.

In addition, Ms. McKeon has been a member of
the International Trademark Association (INTA) Internet Committee since
January 2008 where she has drafted comments and white papers regarding
the regulation of the domain name system and other Internet-related
matters, including the roll-out of the new gTLDs. The Internet Committee
is one of INTA's busiest, most important and high profile Committees
because it is focused on evaluating and formulating opinions and
legislation addressing the misuse of trademarks in cyberspace, a
constantly evolving area of trademark law.

A resident of
Arlington, VA, Ms. McKeon received a B.A. from George Mason University
and a J.D. from The Catholic University Columbus School of Law.